(Spectrum) The word pollution rarely brings to mind anything positive. But MIT Media Lab spinout Graviky Labs in India is enacting a surprising scheme to transform some of the grime contaminating our environment into tools for artists.Graviky founder Anirudh Sharma SM ’14 conceived of Air Ink after talking with friends about how heavy air pollution in India stained their clothes. The Graviky team has spent the past three years researching how to purify and repurpose carbon soot from auto emissions—a major contributor to air pollution—into pens, oil-based paints, and spray paints. Continue reading...

(The News Minute) You thought no good could come out of the black smoke coming out of exhaust pipes and polluting the atmosphere? Wrong. Three Bengaluru-based youths show you how.​Anirudh Sharma, Nikhil Kaushik and Nitesh Kadyan who co-founded Graviky labs have developed a method to capture carbon from your exhaust pipes, turn it into ink, and voila! You can use it to write, paint and more. Continue reading...